[GRASS-user] geotagging of sound recordings for dialect project

[Bov]

Hi,

my name is Bov. With some others of "Vox Humanitas" I plan to setup a
preservation project for all dialects of a world recorded and geotagged so
that the entries can be regrouped when users add new dialect areas via a map
display. The recording software will be Shtooka and the database model is
the Ambaraloader:

http://voxhumanitatis.org/content/ambaradan-owm2-storage-engine

We think that Grass is the best option to do the job. For testing I
installed Grass 6.4.0RC5 
Windows and try to find my way. I couldn't start the vector digitizer yet:

"Vector digitizer is not available (No module named grass6_wxvdigit)"

Before trying some workarounds which I found on the forum I have some major
question which our technical & database specialist Berto brought up:

He would like to know how the generated maps can be retrieved to be shown in
a GUI. If he has that information then he can quickly make up a prototype in
Iliad for you to make experiments with rendering. 

Berto also installed Grass and had a small exchange on the #postgis channel,
to define what kind of gps points should be in postgis, to be later
available for grass. He understands that grass will be a rendering layer,
i.e., something you can use to generate just any map and place points from
ambaradan on the map. 

Because I'm very new to Grass and just starting to understand the syntax
with in the djungle of all it's possibilities I would be very glad for any
hint. 

The main purpose would be able to:

-get world map and get it loaded
-create polygons for each dialect area by users/contributors via a GUI
-be able to add smaller areas into existing areas (I presume with additional
layers) afterwards
-making of sound recording and get them tagged with clicking on the place on
the map where the dialect speaker lives

In Grass I could open some map and could add points with some kind of blue
crosses but I don't understand much about rendering. I don't have enough
basics yet.

Here I made a little simulation ("map creation") how it should work at the
end:

http://www.creativetranslations.eu/DialectWiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&Itemid=17

I would very please about any hint how the project can be done with Grass,
any screen shot or information what options to use in the menues of Map
Display or Layer Manager.

And of course: whoever is interested in dialects is invited to contribute
when evrything is on air.

Best regards

Bov
-- 
View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/geotagging-of-sound-recordings-for-dialect-project-tp3487672p3487672.html
Sent from the Grass - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.